Display-rack.



A. B. MILLER.

DISPLAY RACK. 'APPLIGATION FILED AUG. 21, 1913.

Patented Mar.30,1915.

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'rrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW IE. MILLER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR T0 SOLOMON HIMMEL, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

DISPLAY-RACK.

Application filed August 21, 1913. Serial No. 785,89

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW E. MILLER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at'Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Display Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in display racks for garments and the like.

I-Ieretofore it has-been common practice to mount a rotatable rack upon a suitable carriage or other support, arranged to reciprocate within an inclosing case. In order to enhance the appearance of the case and to render the goods visible for display purposes while within the case, it is customary to form the walls of the latter of plate glass. \Vhere the rack is free to rotate as the carriage or support moves back into the case, it has been found that there is some danger of the glass at the back of the case belng broken by contact with the garment sup porting rods of the rack. It is desirable therefore, in some forms of-these racks, to provide means for preventing rotation of the rack as the carriage moves back and forth and also to prevent rearward movement of the rack until the latter has assumed a proper predetermined position with respect to the case.

One of the objects of the'present lnvention is to provide an improved rack of thls type in which the rack is locked agalnst rotationduring the lGClPIOCLtlOIIOf the carriage. 1

A further object preventing inward movement of the carriage until the rack is in proper posltion with respect to the case.

A further object is to provide means for automatically causing the rack to assume its proper position with respect to the case as the carriage is moved inward.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth and particularly pointed out in the claims In the accompanying draWingsFigure 1. is a plan view of a portion of a display rack illustrating my invention, parts of the case being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 22 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating the guide member.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a case of any suitable or preferred construc- Specification of Letters Patent.

is to provide means for Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

tion, the bottom of which is provided with a channel 12, the upper edges of which are provided with guides 13 between which the carr age 14 is mounted to reciprocate. Said carriage is provided with a tubular bearing 15 in which is rotatably mounted a shaft 16 designed to support the garment supportmg bars or rods usually employed in display racks of this type, and which are not here illustrated. Secured to the shaft 16 is a disk 17 provided with notches 18 to receive a roller 19, carried by a lever 20, pivoted to the carriage at 21, said roller being normally held in engagement with the pe riphery of the disk 17 by a spring 22. The roller 19 cooperates with the notches 18 to normally prevent or retard the rotation of the shaft 16, the shape of the notches being such that as said roller starts to enter one of the notches 18, the supporting bars of the display rack are automatically brought into proper alinement with the rear wall of the case. i

The underside of the disk 17 is provided with a depending guide rib 25 which normally lies parallel with the guide member 26 securedat its rear end to the bottom of the case by suitable fastening devices indicated at 27. The guide member 26 is cut away or, reduced at 28 so as to permit of a slight flexibility of the forward portion thereof.

In practice, as the carriage is moved from its forward position back into the case and vice-versa, the guide rib 25 will engage the guide member 26 and normally prevent rotation of the rack. The guide member is sufiiciently flexible, however, to permit a slight yielding of the parts in the event of undue pressure being applied tending to rotate the rack. lVhen the carriage has been moved to its forward position the rack may be rotated through an arc of approximately 180, theguide rib 25 swinging around the end of the guide 26, until it abuts against the opposite side of the latter. The rack may be returned while in this position or may be swung back to the original position as desired. It is obvious, however, that if the guide rib 25 extends diametrically across the end of the guide member 26, the carriage cannot be moved backward. If the rack has been rotated so as to bring. the guide rib 25 in an inclined position with respect to the guide member, it will be although without attempting to-set'forth all of the forms in which it may be made, or all of the forms of its use, What I claim is 1. An improvement in display racks comprising a reciprocable carriage, a rotatable rack member supported thereby, a guide rib secured to said rack member, and means connected with said rack member and engaging either side of said rib to preventrotation of said rack member during recipro cable movement of the carriage.

'2. An improvement in display racks comprising a reciprocable carriage, a rotatable rack member supported thereby, a guide rib secured to said rack member, and a guide member arranged to engage either side of said rib.

3. An improvement in display racks comprising a reciprocable carriage, a rotatable rack member supported thereby, a guide rib carried by said rackmember, and a guide" member arranged to be engaged by either side of said guide rib, said guide member being of a length to permit partial rotation of said rack member when the carriage is in forward position.

4. An improvement in display racks comprising a reciprocable carriage, a rotatable Copies of this patent may be obtained for rack member supported thereby and provided with a disk, a guide rib depending from said disk and located to one side of the aXis thereof, and means cooperating with said rib for preventing rotation of said rack.

A 5.; improvement in display racks conr prising a reciprocable carriage, .a rotatable rack member supported thereby and pro:

vided with a disk, a guide rib'depending from sald disk and located to one side of the axis thereof, and a guide member co- 7 operating with said rib to prevent rotation of said rack member.

6. Animp-rovement in displayracks comprising a reciprocable carriage, a rotatable rack member supported thereby and provided with a disk, a guide rib depending from said disk and located to one side of the axisthereof,qand a guide member-cooperating rack member supported'thereby, a yieldable V 7 guide member, and a guide rib secured to sald'rack member, and havlng guide means to engage either side of said guide member to prevent rotation of said rack member.

8. improvement prising a reciprocable carriage, a'rotatable in display racks comrack member supported thereby, a yieldable guide member rigidly secured at one "end,

and provided with areduced portion to -render the free-end thereof 'yieldable, and a' guide rib secured to said rack member and having guide means'toengage either side 1 I of said guide member. In testimony whereof my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. Y

' ANDREW? E. MILLER. Witnesses: I HERMAN D. HINTERNESOH,

' JACOB *R. EADER.

five cents each, by addressing the (commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 1

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